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- Touchez pas au grisbi is Becker's only gangster film, where he took the genre forward by combining "a pensive meditation on age, friendship, and lost opportunities" with traditional elements "double-crossings, violence, kidnappings, gun battles", and was influential on French police dramas in the future with its "mood of ironic, existential fatalism".
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Touchez pas au grisbi is Becker's only gangster film, where he took the genre forward by combining "a pensive meditation on age, friendship, and lost opportunities" with traditional elements "double-crossings, violence, kidnappings, gun battles", and was influential on French police dramas in the future with its "mood of ironic, existential ...
Touchez pas au grisbi: Directed by Jacques Becker. With Jean Gabin, René Dary, Dora Doll, Vittorio Sanipoli. An aging, world-weary gangster is double-crossed and forced out of retirement when his best friend is kidnapped and their stash of eight stolen gold bars demanded as ransom.
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- Crime, Drama
- Jacques Becker
- 1960-02
Jean Gabin is at his most wearily romantic as aging gangster Max le Menteur in the Jacques Becker gem Touchez pas au grisbi ( Hands Off the Loot! ). Having pulled off the heist of a lifetime, Max looks forward to spending his remaining days relaxing with his beautiful young girlfriend.
- Max le Menteur
Aug 19, 2009 · Touchez Pas au Grisbi, known best as simply Grisbi, is not always thought of as a film noir. However, it was essentially the beginning of a genre in French film known as gangster noir. It was released in March of 1954 in France on the heels of the major period of film noir, though not…
Nov 7, 2020 · There’s a conference in a backroom were Max pays his respects to a couple of work associates, one a thuggish gangster Angelo (Lino Ventura), the other a bespectacled nightclub owner Pierrot (Paul Frankeur). In another accompanying sequence, he walks in on Angelo with his partner’s girl Josy.
Feb 1, 2004 · At the end of his soliloquy, instead of growing angry as a conventional gangster might, Max opens a bottle of champagne, plays a forlorn harmonica solo on his jukebox, sits in a comfortable chair and lights a cigarette.
Touchez pas au grisbi (1954) A haunting, witty and masterful film about honour and ageing, starring Jean Gabin. In terms of plot this might seem the familiar story of thieves fighting over the spoils from a bank robbery, but Becker elevates it by focussing on a rich gallery of characters, dominated by the magisterial Jean Gabin, as well as ...
